Packetbeat vs tcollector

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Packetbeat		tcollector
	Project
15	Mentions	-
11,989	Stars	512
0.4%	Growth	0.0%
9.9	Activity	1.3
5 days ago	Latest Commit	12 months ago
Go	Language	Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Packetbeat

Posts with mentions or reviews of Packetbeat. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-03.

Sample Windows Logs
3 projects | /r/elasticsearch | 3 May 2023
Best practice guide metricbeat rollup jobs
1 project | /r/elasticsearch | 19 Oct 2022

Found this github issue (https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/9252) that describes the problem. Unfortunate after 4 years this is not resolved. I almost seems that Elastic does not want you to save on disk space.
Problems with enabling filesets in Filebeat
2 projects | /r/elasticsearch | 26 Jul 2022

This is a bug in 8.x https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/30916
Supported OS conflict between Wazuh and Filebeat
1 project | /r/Wazuh | 5 Jul 2022

Yet, this PR in elastic/beats repo adds clone3 syscall to solve the pthread issue and they say it starts with glibc 2.34. Basically, they added clone3 to the allowed syscalls. For those who gets the same error, they can just combine both to be safe, which I did:
Beats – The Lightweight Shippers of the Elastic Stack
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Apr 2022
Beats - The Lightweight Shippers of the Elastic Stack
1 project | /r/github_trends | 20 Apr 2022
Filebeat vs Rsyslog
1 project | /r/elasticsearch | 17 Feb 2022

Question inspired from this issue
Elasticsearch and kibana not in repo anymore?
1 project | /r/archlinux | 24 Jan 2022
Facing 403 access denied error while connecting from logstash to amazon elasticsearch
1 project | /r/elasticsearch | 8 Sep 2021
Filebeat modules
1 project | /r/elasticsearch | 9 Aug 2021

Over at Elasticsearch you're not seeing all the parsed fields correctly? If so, the answer lies in the Filebeat Config and the Ingest Pipeline. (taking DHCP as an example in the links - there are other modules that may be relevant to you like DNS OSCP etc).

tcollector

Posts with mentions or reviews of tcollector. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning tcollector yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Packetbeat and tcollector you can also consider the following projects:

Collectd - The system statistics collection daemon. Please send Pull Requests here!

Telegraf - The plugin-driven server agent for collecting & reporting metrics.

Grafana - The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.

prometheus - The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

InfluxDB - Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics

PGObserver - A battle-tested, flexible & comprehensive monitoring solution for your PostgreSQL databases

logstash-output-elasticsearch

Statsd - Daemon for easy but powerful stats aggregation